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Researchers of Oswaldo Cruz Institute (IOC/Fiocruz), in partnership with the Institute of Scientific and Technological Research of the State of Amapá (Iepa), developed an innovative trap for the collection of mosquitoes, especially anophelines, that transmit malaria. The innovation represents three direct benefits: facilitates field researches, increases mosquito capture, and increases safety in relation to vector contact.
With a format similar to a tent, the tools has two cameras: the internal one designed to house the professional responsible for the collection, and the external one…
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Nísia Trindade Lima, president of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, participated in a meeting held at the British Council Brazil, in March 7, in Brasília, for the official presentation of the four Fiocruz projects approved by the Public Notice Institutional Links Zika Virus. During the meeting, Nísia presented the Social Sciences and Humanities Network, facing the zika epidemic in Brazil, focused on the social repercussions of the relations between the virus and the disease effects in families and in the health system. Nísia said that the epidemic arises in a complex social, political, cultural…
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Representatives of Oswaldo Cruz Foundation met with a delegation of the European Union (EU) on the end of March at the Fiocruz's headquarters in Rio to discuss possible cooperation partnerships on antimicrobial resistance.
The delegation was led by the European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, Vytenis Andriukaitis. In addition to the Commissioner, the European Union Ambassador in Brazil, João Titternigton Gomes Cravinho, the counselor of the European Union Delegation in Brazil, Rui Manuel Rosário Ludovino, the head of the Health and Phytosanitary Matters Unit and head of the…
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“We have a long history in common. The Pasteur Institute and the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation not only share scientific knowledge, but also values. We are living a fascinating period in science, with the fusion of many disciplines. These new forms of scientific organization are very demanding, nothing is like 10 years ago anymore. We should keep that in mind when discussing collaborations. Thus, how can we anticipate where we will be 15 years from now?”
Christian Bréchot, president of the Pasteur Institute, made a declaration in the meeting held on April 4, at the Fiocruz campus in Rio…
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In December 2015 a yellow fever epidemic began in the outskirts of Luanda, capital and largest city of Angola. It quickly spread to the country's 18 provinces, which in that month alone recorded 360 deaths due to the disease. Given this scenario, and seen the outbreak spread to neighboring countries as the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) - which recorded almost 100 deaths - and Uganda, the World Health Organization (WHO) began a major mobilization against the epidemic in February. Counting on emergency aid from laboratories that produce the yellow fever vaccine, an immunization campaign…
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On the path that leads to Castelo Mourisco - a construction that started during Oswaldo Cruz’s time, in 1905, and is a symbol of the health work in fighting yellow fever and smallpox - the Rio de Janeiro TV Globo news team awaits to begin the interview. The camera lenses frame the current president of Fiocruz, Nísia Trindade, while reporter Mônica Sanches inquires about the currently most commented disease in Brazil. Shortly before, it was the time for the coordinator of the Center of Information on Wild Health (CISS/Fiocruz), Márcia Chame, to be approached with questions aimed at…
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At a meeting at the World Health Organization (WHO) headquarters in Geneva on Wednesday (April 19), the president of Fiocruz, Nísia Trindade Lima, said that it is necessary to "think of neglected populations, not just neglected diseases". According to Lima, "the health sector needs to work in coordination with other sectors, ensuring free access to quality services that lead to health promotion and education."
The statement was made at the Global Partners Meeting on Neglected Tropical Diseases. Collaborate. Accelerate. Eliminate.which brought together dozens of international…
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The newsletter of the Center for International Relations in Health (Cris) is prepared by the Coordination of Social Communication for Fiocruz (CCS), an advisory board of the Presidency of Fiocruz with the support of the Institute of Scientific and Technological Communication and Information in Health (Icict/Fiocruz).
Editorial supervision: Elisa Andries (CCS) - elisa.andries@fiocruz.br
Edition: Cristina Azevedo (CCS) - cristina.azevedo@fiocruz.br
Editorial Coordination (Cris): Clementino Fraga (Cris) - clementino.fraga@fiocruz.br
Design: Bruno Oliveira e Aldo Moura (Icict…
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Por: Nísia Trindade Lima, presidente da Fiocruz*
A luta das mulheres pelos direitos econômicos, sociais, políticos e civis é essencialmente uma luta pela democratização da sociedade, pela equidade nas relações de gênero e uma forte expressão de esperança em um mundo mais justo.
O fato de a Fiocruz ser dirigida, pela primeira vez em sua história, por uma mulher aumenta a responsabilidade de todos nós, mulheres e homens, que nos comprometemos com a equidade e a justiça na instituição e na sociedade. Representamos hoje 55,7% dos trabalhadores e 59% dos que realizam atividades de pesquisa e…
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They are constituted by specimens that represent valuable resources for the comprehension of the health and disease states in human and other animals; for the epidemiological relationship of diseases and environments in which they occur or have occurred; for a greater understanding of the evolution of diseases and pathogens, vectors and reservoirs; for the histopathological and/or molecular diagnostic reassessment; for the study of the influence of the diseases on the habits and customs of society.
Collection of Yellow Fever (CFA)
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The Botanical Collection of Fiocruz consists of herbarium specimens of plants (exsiccates), from medicinal use, found in different Brazilian biomes. It has as main function the botanical identification and traceability of plant species of medicinal interest contemplated in Science, Technology and Innovation projects focused on the areas of medicinal and phytotherapeutic plants and the development of medicines from the Brazilian biodiversity.
Botanical Collection of Medicinal Plants (CBPM)
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The Fiocruz Zoological Collections maintain specimens that attest the zoological richness of various regions of Brazil. They ensure the denomination of groups of organisms and establish the information basis for analysis of geographic distribution, morphological diversity, kinship relationships and evolution of species, leading to a greater understanding of the epidemiological relationship of vectors and reservoirs with their infectious agents.
For consulting the services provided by the zoological collections, including their electronic catalogue of zoological specimens and the staff…
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Brazil´s most important health institution, the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), has a new President. Nísia Trindade Lima, a highly awarded researcher, teacher, sociologist and former vice-president of Fiocruz, is the first woman to chair the institution in its 116-year history.
After winning the internal elections with 59.7% of votes over second-place-runner Tania de Araujo-Jorge’s 39.6%, Nísia was nominated on January 4th by the President of Brazil, Michel Temer, and his Minister of Health, Ricardo Barros, to rule from 2017 to 2020.
The President’s Profile
Senior researcher with a Ph.D.…
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Nagoya Protocol: Reference Documents
The Nagoya Protocol is the international agreement that regulates the Access and Benefit Sharing. That is, it establishes guidelines for commercial relations between the provider country of the genetic resources and the user country, covering aspects such as royalty payments, establishment of joint ventures, the right to technology transfer and training.
The protocol was created by the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) at its tenth meeting (COP 10), which took place on October 29, 2010, in Nagoya, Japan, and entered…
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After 180 days from the publication in the Official Gazette, the Law 13.123 entered into force on November 17th, 2015, and, according with the legal deadlines, the government had these same 180 days for the regulation of the law by the publication of a decree. However, past this deadline, the regulatory decree was not published and the Provisional Measure 2186-16 / 01, the previous legislation, was revoked. So, we stayed for almost 6 months in a scenario in which there was a law in force without regulation, resulting in a legal vacuum. Finally, on May 12, 2016 the Decree 8.772 was published.…
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Biodiversity Law: Reference Documents
Brazil was one of the first countries to implement an Access and Benefit Sharing legislation for genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge: the Provisional Act 2186-16/ 2001, according to the Convention on Biological Diversity. The intention was to prevent biopiracy and ensure the fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from the use of this biodiversity. In practice, however, this law created barriers to Research & Development (R&D), brought obstacles to innovation and patents, interfered in international collaborations and…
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The Casa de Oswaldo Cruz (COC/Fiocruz) and the Center for International Relations in Health (Cris/Fiocruz) will be hosting two international seminars on Bioethics and Leprosy on May 5 - 6. The events are part of the 2016 WHO Global Health Ethics and the Global Health Histories seminars, organized by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Centre for Global Health Histories, University of York.
The events will open on May, 5 from 9:30 am to 12:30 pm at the auditorium of the Museum of Life, located at Fiocruz’s campus in Manguinhos, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The opening will be attended by…
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The biological collections are essential to ensure the biodiversity preservation. At Fiocruz, they perform services of preservation, maintenance, supply, and taxonomic characterization and identification of biological material for research development in science, technology and innovation, and in epidemiological surveillance, in accordance with the national and international norms and legislations in place.
The movement of organization and institutional recognition of the Fiocruz biological collections started in 2006, with the creation of the Fiocruz Permanent Forum of Biological Collections…
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Após duas experiências de êxito com os temas Bioética e ética em pesquisa na divulgação científica, e Bioética Clínica, estudantes dos programas de pós-graduação da Fiocruz encerraram a terceira disciplina integrada, desta vez, sobre Bioinformática. Com a participação de alunos e professores do Centro de Pesquisas Gonçalo Moniz (CPqGM/Fiocruz Bahia), do Centro de Pesquisas René Rachou (CPqRR/Fiocruz Minas), do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz (IOC/Fiocruz), no Rio de Janeiro, da Fiocruz Rondônia e de outras instituições parcerias, a atividade abriu as portas para novos horizontes em termos de ensino e…
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Como marco do aniversário de dez anos da sua Ouvidoria Geral, a Fiocruz sediou, em 8 de julho, o 2º Fórum de Ouvidorias Públicas do Rio de Janeiro, abordado diversos aspectos da contribuição das ouvidorias públicas para a democracia e a transparência públicas.
Veja as apresentações a seguir:
II Encontro das Ouvidorias do Rio de Janeiro
Controladoria-Geral da União
Resolução Alternativa de Conflitos - A experiência da CGRAI e a prática internacional
Coordenação-Geral de Recursos de Acesso à Informação da Controladoria Geral da União (CGU)
Democracia Participativa na Saúde - A…
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To publicize the Foundation’s activities in international cooperation, Cris works in partnership with the Coordination of Social Communication (CCS) of the Fiocruz Office of the President to publish the Fiocuz International News.
FIOCRUZ INTERNACIONAL NEWS
The Foundation’s various international initiatives are presented in each edition, covering the history of the Center’s activity and thus the majority of the international activities each year.
The following international topics are featured, among others:
Visits by foreign delegations to Fiocruz;
International agreements celebrated in…
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A Diretoria de Recursos Humanos (Direh) informa que a posse dos candidatos aprovados no último concurso como excedentes terá início na próxima quarta-feira (17/6), no auditório da Coordenação de saúde do Trabalhador (CST), localizado no pavilhão Carlos Augusto da Silva.
Os trabalhadores da unidade estão finalizando os últimos procedimentos relacionados à infraestrutura do local. Já está disponível aos candidatos nomeados e aptos no exame admissional o acesso à agenda para marcar a data da posse. O agendamento se dá exclusivamente por meio do Guia de Admissão e Integração de Servidores da…
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Coordination:
General Coordination, International Programming Group (GPI) and Technical Chamber for International Cooperation (CTCI)
Telephones: (55-21) 3885-1634/3885-1623
North-South Cooperation
Telephones: (55-21) 3885-1778/3885-1055
South-South Cooperation
Telephones: (55-21) 3885-1777
Management:
Administration and Financial Planning
Telephones: (55-21) 3885-1849
Agreements and mobility
International agreements:
Tels: (55-21) 3885-1601 / 3885-1733
Foreigners mobility :
Tels: (5521) 3885-1774
Communications and Information
Telephones: (55-21) 3885-1782
Events
Telephones: (55-21) 3885-1820…
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Fiocruz currently has six units officially designated as Collaborating Centers of the Pan American Health Organization and World Health Organization. The most recent designation (in 2014) was the Collaborating Center for Global Health and South-South Cooperation, which due to its nature is responsible for assisting the development of the other Centers.
Collaborating Center for Global Health and South-South Cooperation – work program:
Promote Social Determinants of Health, according to the Rio Political Declaration (2011);
Support the Health Systems Structural Networks in health…
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International activities that involve advising the Office of the President and the Board of Directors of FIOCRUZ are linked at two levels, both coordinated by Fiocruz Global Health Center: the first with representation of the Offices of the Vice-Presidents (GPI) and the second with participation by all of the Foundation’s technical, scientific, and administrative units (CTSI).
The International Programming Group (GPI) is dedicated to assisting negotiations with foreign institutions that may generate cooperative programs with participation by the Foundation’s institutes. The GPI can convene…
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Work by the Fiocruz Global Health Center) includes contacts, support, and coordination of international projects with the units, institutes, and offices of the Vice-Presidents of Fiocruz, using the Group for International Programming (GPI) and the Technical Chamber for International Cooperation (CTCI) as tools for the formulation and orientation of policies, strategies, and linkages, working under the Center’s coordination.
The Center does the following work:
Introduces the dimensions of global health governance into the various fields of action by FIOCRUZ;
Promotes and monitors exchange…
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